Chapter 4 - FOREIGN TRADE ZONES

Section 22-401

Section 22-401

  §  22-401 Foreign-trade zones. The city is hereby authorized from time
to time to make application to the  board  established  by  the  act  of
congress,   approved  June  eighteenth,  nineteen  hundred  thirty-four,
entitled "An  act  to  provide  for  the  establishment,  operation  and
maintenance  of  foreign-trade  zones  in  ports  of entry of the United
States, to expedite  and  encourage  foreign  commerce,  and  for  other
purposes,"  for a grant or grants or any extensions thereof to such city
of  the  privilege  of  establishing,  operating   and   maintaining   a
foreign-trade  zone  or  zones  or  any extensions thereof in such city,
pursuant to the provisions of such act, and if any such  application  be
granted, to accept such grant or grants or any extensions thereof and to
establish,  operate  and  maintain any such zone or extension thereof in
accordance with law. The authorization hereby granted  shall  extend  to
and  cover  any  application heretofore made for any such purpose by the
city pursuant to the act of congress hereinbefore described, and to  any
amendment of such an application.